okay this is pc building channels so what the heck am i doing with
the laptop here well in addition to all the desktop building that i do
as you might have noticed i actually do edit a fair bit of video so i am checking out the m1
pro today and we'll do a little studio talk we'll compare it against the hackintosh build that i
have here in my nksm1 for final cut performance so today let's compare m1 to m1 and apple's two
long two machines and more i game on a pc duh and i prefer windows heavily for just about everything
in general except for one thing and it's kind of a big thing i edit my videos in final cut
i learned how to do video editing about 15 years ago in final cut 7 but i switched over
to 10 when it first came out and that's been my annalee of choice i'm a sucker for the
magnetic timeline and it just works for the way i shoot and edit the videos here for the channel
and especially for that content on this channel it saves a lot of time i have tried the workflow
in davinci resolve before and sure if this were a hollywood production it might make sense but
for youtube final cut is perfect for me and it's quick problem is it's mac os specific and there's
really no way around it now i've built my fair share of hackintosh's to run it and the one over
here is my latest one the m1 it's a dual boot open core system xt 10 700 k 32 gigs of ram and
that configuration is pretty similar to one of the previous gen intel imacs of course this is a full
on desktop gpu with a larger cooler now this laptop here is the base model m1 pro
8 cores with a 6p plus 2e setup 16 gigs of unified ram it's as base as it gets right and i'm checking
it out today to see if how it stacks up i haven't decided if i'm going to use one of these yet
but uh i wanted to see if this would actually make sense for my video editing now i do have this on
the cooler master connect stand that they sent by thanks guys even has a sickle flow fan attached
to it see but i'm not sure i'll even need that but it's nice to know that at least there's the
option so based on the geekbench 5 scores this should be pretty comparable the m1 pro is more
competitive than the 10 700k that i have in the end case but this one has a discrete gpu right
in the 5600 xt so i set up a simple test with a timeline i shoot with a sony fx3 and 4k 422 10 bit
footage is logged in xavchs which is a very punishing codec especially in 120fps since
hgvc is heavily compressed so let's take a quick look at 120fps from the 6600xt review
yeah place back just fine here this is not transcoded the prores
just stock out of the camera pretty impressive and then over to the hackintosh take a look here
oh
video frames were dropped during playback so it stutters and it can't keep up with the 120fps
so that's why i usually transcode to prores on the hackintosh in order to get it to playback fine and
this that's exactly why it can't do it without stuttering this is a pretty optimized open core
setup though you even though you do need to pick a suitable sm bios i have tested quite a few and
this one is using the imac pro 1 1 which doesn't use the igpu in the 10 700k but set up this way it
makes proper use of that discrete gpu and it does run quite well otherwise so okay so it doesn't
play back smoothly then you'd need to transcode that footage to prores how does that look
well the m1 pro has a dedicated prores encoder and decoder and that is why it is so fast and the
hackintosh has to use the cpu for that task the 10700k is full throttle here i'm not sure about
the regular m1 and borrow to get that benchmark but yeah it's gotta have some dedicated hardware
too for that since the cpu isn't gonna beat out the 10700k a couple of other things you might do
in final cut you might stabilize your footage the m1 pro here is as i tested faster here by
a little bit so object track is a new function in the latest version of final cut let's just
take a look here and we'll just click analyze in both directions we're just going to go forward
and start these two off i've already tested it but uh the
hackintosh is zipping along just a little bit faster than the m1 and m1 pro
and what it's doing is it's trying to track the same shape or pattern in the footage and that gets
delegated to the discrete gpu so that the hackness is already finished and this just finished so the
hackintosh does win by a little bit there and that's because of the discrete gpu giving the
hackintosh a leg up now when it comes time to export that timeline the amd gpu has a dedicated
hardware encoder for h.264 so when the discrete gpu can shine the hackintosh is pretty awesome
when we export to a prores file though the m1 pro with its dedicated harbor is pretty unbeatable
if you work that way you still have to encode with something like handbrake to get to h.264
and there you'll see a similar gap between these two machines i was interested in power
consumption for various tasks and that is one area that the arm chip just blows the desktop
out of the water now keep in mind this is with a display being powered to the laptop so yeah there
are some areas that the hackintosh does better but so far i'm actually pretty impressed by the m1 pro
at least from a workflow perspective where i'm waiting to edit my footage this thing is going
to save a lot of time not to mention i might not really even need to transcode it with this guy
i am still deliberating it though i do like the idea so far yeah i could upgrade the gpu
in the nk someone to a 6800 or 6800 xt but in the gpu market right now i don't know that that
makes too much sense and for the tasks that the gpu can do the 5600 xt is already better anyway
now the one thing that is giving me some pauses that support for the 6600 xt is gonna be there
in monterey 12.1 i already have a 6600 xt so that does give me a little pause i kind of want to see
how it performs with that but specifically for my workflow and final cut this thing is pretty sweet
it's mobile yeah it's a laptop i can't upgrade the ram if i wanted to later on but otherwise
it's pretty killer the screen is gorgeous the build quality is great the keyboard and it's
actually one of the nicest laptop keyboards that i've typed on before the speakers are incredible
pretty impressed but of course the hdmi port it's totally half-assed yeah okay pat yourself
on the back for bringing back something that you killed off but then it's only a 2.0 port
whatever we'll see what happens i'll keep you guys updated thanks for checking it out with
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